Prerequisites: SOC 001 or SOC 001H
Description: An introduction to law, jurisprudence, and legal reasoning focusing on the roles that race, class, gender, culture, and language play in law and jurisprudence. Includes an overview of the development of modern American legal thought and various schools of jurisprudence such as legal realism. Discusses modern challenges to legal formalism by critical legal studies, critical race theory, and feminist jurisprudence. Analyzes the equal protection doctrine and recent legal attacks on affirmative action and immigrants.